International Kierkegaard Newsletter 1998

No. 20 . October 1998 ISSN 0108-3104

OTHER:

Roar Lavik, Denmark, is doing a (Danish) project on Søren Kierkegaard's and Martin Luther's understanding of Holy Communion with a grant from the National Council for the Humanities (Statens Humanistiske Forskningsråd). (Kristeligt Dagblad 14.4.98: Praest får støtte til forskning).

An article about Hans Lassen Martensen is to be found in Kristeligt Dagblad, Kronik, Poul Foss: Sandhedens autoritet, 22.1.1998.

In Acta Comparanda IX FVG, Faculty for Comparative Study of Religions, Antwerp, Belgium, ISSN 0779-9853, 1998, pp. 102-3 there is a letter to Kierkegaard from the Symparanekromenoi: "A Letter from Posterity".

Poems:
Kierkegaard på Cykel: Benny Andersen in his collection of poems: Denne kommen og gåen, Denmark, 1993, pp. 49-50.

Requiem for Kierkegaard: Sadanand Rege in Modern Indian Poetry in English, ed. P. Lal, 1971, pp. 706-7.

Kierkegaard: R.S. Thomas in Collected Poems 1945-1990, Phoenix Giant, J.M. Dent, 1993, 1996, p. 162, cf. A Grave Unvisited p. 183 and Balance p. 362.

Please note that the Danish Cultural Institute (Det Danske Kulturinstitut) runs a Danish People's High School course (Danmark, Danskerne, Dansk) for non-Danes, to provide an opportunity for learning Danish and about the Danish culture. Prospective participants should have some knowledge of Danish. Details about this type of course (12-25 July 1998 at Nørgaards Højskole) are available from Det Danske Kulturinstitut, Kultorvet 2, DK-1175 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Tlf.: + 45 33 13 54 48; Fax: + 45 33 15 10 91; Email: d-k-i@inet.uni-c.dk or dancult@cultur.dk

The Danish Literature Information Centre from this Spring offers Danish Writers on the internet. Naturally any literature on Kierkegaard will appear there too. See Kulturnet Danmark:
http://www.kulturnet.dk/dlic/homes/forfatter-profiler (or forfatterprofiler).

UMI: Please also note UMI's new books on demand service plus their Out-of-Print catalogues for any Kierkegaard or related books out-of-print. See
http://www.umi.com or Fax in U.K. +44 (0) 14444 445050; email: umi@umi.uk.com

PLEASE send all material for the next Newsletter by October 1st, 1999. Material sent later goes into the Newsletter for the following year but can immediately go into the next edition on the internet. Please do keep sending me Kierkegaard details that come your way, especially your own. Editorial address is: Dr. Julia Watkin, School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, PO Box 1214, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. I can be reached also by fax: 61 3 63 26 75 35 or
email: Julia.Watkin@utas.edu.au
Best wishes to you all for a very good and happy new Kierkegaard year.
Julia Watkin

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